Results from a phase III drug trial indicate that an anti-anemia drug did not significantly decrease the need for blood transfusions in patients not on chemotherapy, and decreased overall patient survival when compared to placebo, according to researchers from the UCLA Medical Center at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
A vaccine for treating a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that occurs primarily in the brain has shown promise in preliminary data from a clinical trial at the University of California, San Francisco.
Four-year-old girls are six times more likely to have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of more than 30 than they were 20 years ago and ten-year-olds are five times more likely, according to research published in the April issue of Acta Paediactrica.
Immature sperm cells have been created from stem cells in human bone marrow. The research has potential application for the treatment for male infertility.
Women can encounter environmental factors that increase their risk of breast cancer at various periods of their physical development, beginning before birth and extending until menopause.
The majority of young doctors believe the NHS will be unrecognisable in ten years time, a BMA survey suggests.
Today, AARP endorsed the Part D Equity for Low-Income Seniors Act, introduced by U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Gordon Smith (R-OR), that would help people with limited incomes on Medicare get the prescription drugs they need.
The Medical Institute responded to the “Impact of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs” final report released earlier by Mathematica Policy Research Inc., affirming that the report did not call for de-funding of abstinence programs but simply advocated further study.
Scientific research into self-healing materials has taken off significantly worldwide in recent years. The Delft Centre for Materials of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has therefore taken the initiative to mount the first conference on the topic.
Human bone marrow has been used to create early-stage sperm cells for the first time, a scientific step forward that will help researchers understand more about how sperm cells are created.